Patents by Inventor Koji Kawakita

Koji Kawakita has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12266103
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: obtaining, using at least one sensor of an information handling device facilitating a video conference, at least one image of a portion of a user of the information handling device participating in the video conference, wherein at least one participant in the video conference is located remotely with respect to the user; identifying, using an image diagnosis system, a condition of the portion of the user by analyzing the at least one image of the portion of the user; and transmitting, using the image diagnosis system, the condition to the at least one participant. Other aspects are claimed and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Sean C. Kelly, Koji Kawakita
  • Publication number: 20250036351
    Abstract: A computer implemented method performed by a smart device includes receiving a meeting signal from a conference hub device in a meeting room indicative of an electronic conference, communicatively connecting with the conference hub in response to receiving the meeting signal, generating a communication tunnel to a smart device microphone, and accepting commands from the conference hub device to control the smart device microphone via the communication tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: David Douglas, Philip J. Jakes, Tin-Lup Wong, Ken Seethaler, Kazuo Fujii, Koji Kawakita, Kelly C. Sean
  • Publication number: 20250022254
    Abstract: An image processing method includes using different filter weights to process a multi-scale feature map obtained by encoding an initial image to obtain a target residual image after obtaining the initial image, and performing target processing on the initial image and the target residual image to obtain a target output image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Xiang FENG, Koji KAWAKITA, Sean KELLY, Koichiro ISHIGAMI
  • Publication number: 20250008047
    Abstract: An imaging system includes a color imaging sensor that acquires a color image having a color image resolution and color image field of view, a grayscale imaging sensor that acquires a grayscale image having a grayscale image resolution and grayscale image field of view, wherein the grayscale image field of view is at least partially within the color image field of view, and the grayscale image resolution is greater than the color image resolution with respect to the color image field of view, and a first processor that generates an output image by obtaining the color image and the grayscale image, determining a color image region of interest (ROI), bounded by a color image ROI boundary box within the color image, such that the color image ROI includes the subject, and determining a grayscale image ROI, bounded by a grayscale image ROI boundary box within the grayscale image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited
    Inventors: Koichiro Ishigami, Koji Kawakita, Sean Kelly, Xiang Feng
  • Publication number: 20240414446
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes: a display in which a plurality of pixels are arranged; a camera; and a controller. Light transmitted through a part of an area of the display is incident on the camera. The controller is configured to determine a high-brightness area in which a brightness exceeds a certain value, based on a brightness distribution of a captured image captured by the camera, determine an artifact distribution based on an artifact pattern for a point light source and the high-brightness area, estimate a correction image based on the captured image by using a machine learning model that has learned a relationship between a first image captured with transmission through the display and a second image captured without transmission through the display, determine an applied intensity of the correction image based on the artifact distribution, and combine the correction image and the captured image based on the applied intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tsukamoto, Koji Kawakita
  • Publication number: 20240412678
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display having a screen area in which a plurality of pixels is arranged, a camera, and a controller. Light transmitted through a transparent area, which is a part of the screen area, is incident on the camera. The controller restricts display at least in the transparent area when acquiring a captured image from the camera, and removes a restriction when not acquiring the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasushi Tsukamoto, Koji Kawakita, Koichiro Ishigami
  • Patent number: 12093211
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, based on context data, a location of an information handling device; accessing a settings profile for the information handling device that is based on the identified location; determining, using a processor, whether at least one current setting on the information handling device is inconsistent with the settings profile; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the at least one current setting is inconsistent with the settings profile, the at least one current setting to match the settings profile for the location. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Philip J Jakes, Adam Cavenaugh, Tin-Lup Wong, Koji Kawakita, David Douglas, Kazuo Fujii
  • Patent number: 11991507
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one camera sensor coupled to an information handling device, an image of a location; identifying, based upon analysis of the captured image, at least one user position in the location; determining, using a processor, whether a beamforming setting for a microphone array is optimized for the at least one user position; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the beamforming setting for the microphone array is not optimized for the at least one user position, the beamforming setting to an optimized beamforming setting. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip J Jakes, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler, David Douglas
  • Publication number: 20240152198
    Abstract: A computer system includes a display panel, at least one camera disposed under the display panel, and a processing system. The processing system includes a display driver circuit, a system processor, and a vision chip. The vision chip, independently from the system processor, processes image data captured by the at least one camera through the display panel, updates a state of the computer system based on the image data, and instructs the display driver circuit to drive the display panel to display a system state indicator symbol indicating the state of the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Sean C. Kelly
  • Publication number: 20240005482
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, the method including: obtaining, using at least one sensor of an information handling device facilitating a video conference, at least one image of a portion of a user of the information handling device participating in the video conference, wherein at least one participant in the video conference is located remotely with respect to the user; identifying, using an image diagnosis system, a condition of the portion of the user by analyzing the at least one image of the portion of the user; and transmitting, using the image diagnosis system, the condition to the at least one participant. Other aspects are claimed and described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Sean C. Kelly, Koji Kawakita
  • Publication number: 20230413143
    Abstract: A system and a method for automatically switching between a WLAN primary data connection mode and a WWAN primary data connection mode within a mobile device include a switching control unit in communication with a WLAN communication device and a WWAN communication device. The switching control unit is configured to selectively and automatically switch the mobile device between the WLAN primary data connection mode and the WWAN primary data connection mode based on one or both of motion of the mobile device or a time period of the motion of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Philip J. Jakes, Kenneth Seethaler, Tin-Lup Wong, David Douglas, Koji Kawakita, Kazuo Fujii
  • Publication number: 20230276187
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving sound at multiple microphones of a microphone array from multiple people at various locations about the microphone array. The received sound is encoded in at least one format capable of representing spatial locations of the multiple people. The encoded sound is transmitted in the at least one format to a remote user system capable of rendering the sound in a manner that conveys the spatial locations to a user of the remote user system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Tin-Lup Wong, David W. Douglas, Koji Kawakita, Kazuo Fujii
  • Publication number: 20230262300
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first sensor that outputs a first output signal obtained by photoelectrically converting visible light incident through a color filter; a second sensor that outputs a second output signal obtained by photoelectrically converting visible light incident through a color filter or a third output signal obtained by photoelectrically converting light including infrared light incident without going through the color filter; a first processor that generates first image data based on the first output signal, and second image data based on the second output signal or the third output signal; a memory that temporarily stores the first image data and the second image data; a second processor that generates image data obtained by fusing the first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd
    Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Kazuo Fujii, David Douglas, Kenneth Scott Seethaler
  • Publication number: 20230199383
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: capturing, using at least one camera sensor coupled to an information handling device, an image of a location; identifying, based upon analysis of the captured image, at least one user position in the location; determining, using a processor, whether a beamforming setting for a microphone array is optimized for the at least one user position; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the beamforming setting for the microphone array is not optimized for the at least one user position, the beamforming setting to an optimized beamforming setting. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Koji Kawakita, Tin-Lup Wong, Philip J Jakes, Kazuo Fujii, Kenneth Seethaler, David Douglas
  • Publication number: 20230195687
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, based on context data, a location of an information handling device; accessing a settings profile for the information handling device that is based on the identified location; determining, using a processor, whether at least one current setting on the information handling device is inconsistent with the settings profile; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the at least one current setting is inconsistent with the settings profile, the at least one current setting to match the settings profile for the location. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Philip J. Jakes, Adam Cavenaugh, Tin-Lup Wong, Koji Kawakita, David Douglas, Kazuo Fujii
  • Patent number: 11250144
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and program products are disclosed for operating a display in privacy mode. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to detect an individual within an unauthorized zone in the field of view of a camera. The code is executable by the processor to operate a display in privacy mode in response to detecting the individual within the unauthorized zone. Methods and computer program products that perform the functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Kawakita, David W. Douglas, Tin-Lup Wong
  • Patent number: 11194411
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive, from a stylus, at least one transmission indicating movement of the stylus. The instructions may also be executable to take, based on the at least one transmission, at least one action at the device. The stylus itself may include one or more motion sensors to sense the movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: David W. Douglas, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kenneth Seethaler, Koji Kawakita
  • Patent number: 11163354
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes: a first chassis having a display unit; a second chassis having an input unit; a rotation mechanism which makes the first chassis rotatable with respect to the second chassis; a mode control unit which, when a tent mode is detected as a state where the first chassis and the second chassis are folded back to back, disables the permission of transition to a sleeping state, and enables a voice input function from a normal processing mode to change to a voice input processing mode in which a processing state of the system is maintained; and a power setting processing unit which changes, in the voice input processing mode, the setting of maximum power consumption to a setting lower than a setting in the normal processing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventor: Koji Kawakita
  • Publication number: 20210201935
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions that may be executable by the at least one processor to receive input from a camera in communication with the at least one processor and to determine, based on the input from the camera, whether a user is currently speaking. The instructions may also be executable to present a notification regarding whether to unmute at least one microphone accessible to the at least one processor responsive to a determination that the user is currently speaking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kazuo Fujii, Koji Kawakita
  • Patent number: 11049511
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions that may be executable by the at least one processor to receive input from a camera in communication with the at least one processor and to determine, based on the input from the camera, whether a user is currently speaking. The instructions may also be executable to present a notification regarding whether to unmute at least one microphone accessible to the at least one processor responsive to a determination that the user is currently speaking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenneth Seethaler, Adam Jerome Cavenaugh, Kazuo Fujii, Koji Kawakita